WASHINGTON/ DETROIT, June 2- Takata Corp will "rapidly" reduce production of a volatile chemical that has been linked to ruptured air bag inflators, a company executive told U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday. The chemical, ammonium nitrate, "appears to be one of the factors" contributing to inflator ruptures linked to six deaths and hundreds of injuries, Kevin Kennedy,...

"Negative impacts are not only something in the future- they are something now," said Zou Ji, a co-leader of the U.N. review of consultations about science policy for governments working on a U.N. climate deal in Paris in December. All sides at the presentation of the report, on the sidelines of June 1-11 talks on the Paris accord, said government promises so far for...